Dear friends,

I visited our State Medical Library some days ago; I became curious what
research can be found in Russian and Ukrainian journals
I have found article, which I think, can be interesting.
It has an abstract in English but journal where it was published is not
indexed for Medline. (May be journal people should somehow apply to get
their journal indexed?)
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Morozova NA Pilipenko OM Clinical-ultrasonographic correlations of lactation
// Pediatria,akusherstvo ta gynekologia.-1997. N5 p 64-65
[Article in Ukrainian]
Abstract: Ultrasonographic pictures of breasts of 58 pregnant and 21
postpartum [women], who had cesarean section, were presented in this
article. It has been established that ultrasonographic investigation of
breasts is a valuable test, which can show morphological differentiation of
breast tissues during pregnancy. Certain relationships between morphological
differentiation of breast tissues and their localization were evaluated.
Proportion of secretory and fat tissues in the breasts can be used for
prognosis of lactation activity.
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They looked at the breasts when moms were 6-12 weeks pregnant, then at
13-20, 21-26, 27-31, 32-36 and at 37-40 weeks. Basing on the ultrasound
picture of breasts at the first scanning they divided 58 women (26 of them
were primiparous) into three groups: mostly
glandular breast tissue (21 women), mostly adipose (fat) breast tissue (13
women), and mixed
type (even proportion of glandular and adipose tissue - 24 women). Breasts
changed as pregnancy progressed.

Right and left breasts changed at different speeds. Initially, 25.7% of
right breasts were of glandular type, 66.7% - of the mixed type and only
6.7% - of the adipose. 23.3 % of left breasts were of glandular type and
21% - of adipose (3 times more than right); 56.8% left breasts were of the
mixed type.

As pregnancy progressed, the fat tissue was displaced by the glandular. This
process had different speed in the right and left breasts.


Right breast: 6-12 weeks - 6.7% of breasts with prevalent adipose tissue; 20
weeks - 3.3% of that type; this type completely disappeared at 26 weeks.


Left breast: 6-12 weeks - 20%; 20 weeks - 13.3%; next scan [time not
specified, but I think it is 27-31 weeks] - 3.3%; completely disappeared at
31 week

They also studied changes in the different quadrants of the breast.


sincerely yours, Victoria Nesterova
bf supporter, Kiev, Ukraine. 

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